All Boys

All Boys

Full name	Club Atlético All Boys
Nickname(s)	Albo
Founded	15 March 1913 (1913-03-15)
Ground	Islas Malvinas Stadium, Floresta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Capacity	12,148
Chairman	Nicolás Cambiasso
Coach	José Romero
League	Primera B Nacional
2018–19	Primera B Metropolitana, 8th° (promoted via play-offs)
Website	http://caallboys.com.ar/
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Club Atlético All Boys (Template:IPA-es) is an Argentine sports club based in Floresta, Buenos Aires. The institution is mostly known by its football team, which currently plays at the Primera B Nacional, the second division of the Argentine football league system.

Other sports and activities at the club are basketball, chess, futsal, handball, kick boxing, roller skating, taekwondo, freestyle wrestling, jiu-jitsu and sipalki.

History

On 15 March 1913, the club was founded by a group of friends. The name "All Boys" reflected the youthfulness of its founders, and followed the Argentine tradition of naming football clubs in English, such as Newell's Old Boys, Boca Juniors, River Plate and Racing Club had done before.

All Boys team of 1914, the year the club started to play officially

In 1914 All Boys registered to Argentine Football Association and began to play at "División Intermedia" (current Second Division), where they earned qualification to play the Copa Competencia. The team promoted to Primera División in 1922, making its debut in the top division on 11 March 1923, against Temperley, which won the match by 1–0. The first official goal in Primera was scored against Porteño in a game that ended 1–1. All Boys won its first game in Primera in the 3rd fixture, when the "Albo" beat Progresista by 3–1.

In 1931 All Boys returned to Primera División

All Boys disaffiliated from the Association in 1926 but the team returned to Segunda División one year later when both associations merged into one. In 1931, All Boys was promoted a second time, remaining in Primera until 1934 when the Amateur Association joined Professional league and all its teams were relegated.

In 1945 the team went down to the second division for the first time, but next year All Boys won the Tercera de Ascenso championship after defeating Justo José de Urquiza 2–1. That season All Boys played 24 matches and scored 91 goals.

In 1950 there was a restructuring in Argentine football that sent many teams to the lower division, alleging that those institutions had their stadiums in poor conditions to host the Primera División matches. One of those teams relegated was All Boys. The following year All Boys won its second championship with a victory over Tiro Federal which brought "The Albo" back to Primera.

All Boys team of 1972, that won the second division championship and got promotion to Primera

In 1972 All Boys hired José Paladino as coach. Under his command, the squad won 11 consecutive games (which remains a record for lower categories), obtaining 29/30 points. Therefore, on 14 October 1972, All Boys became Primera B champion defeating Excursionistas 1–0 with a goal scored by Benítez.

Some notable players of that team were Valentín Sánchez (top scorer), José Romero (proclaimed as "the best player of the team") and Ángel Mamberto. After promotion to the Primera, All Boys remained eight years in that division, achieving its best position in the 1974 Torneo Nacional where it finished 5th. All Boys also defeated Boca Juniors, River Plate, San Lorenzo, Independiente and Racing. In 1980 All Boys was relegated to Primera B.

When the Argentine football system was restructured, All Boys could not qualify amongst the 8 teams to dispute the Primera B Nacional, being relegated to play in the Primera B Metropolitana, which was one level lower.

For the 1992–93 season Mario Rizzi was hired as the team coach, and he incorporated some players such as Marcelo Blanco, Marcelo Yanino, Rubén Urquiza. The team made a great campaign, playing the decisive match against Defensores de Belgrano at Ferro Carril Oeste stadium, where 25,000 All Boys' supporters attended, which set a record of spectators for the lower categories in Argentine football. The Floresta team won its 4th championship, being promoted to Primera B Nacional.

In 2001 the team was relegated to Primera B Metropolitana again. For the 2002–03 season the club hired Ricardo Caruso Lombardi as coach. The team won 8 consecutive games and qualified to play the Torneo Reducido, which was won by the club but then lost promotion at the hands of El Porvenir. For the 2007–08 season the club incorporated Ariel Zárate, Hernán Grana and Gustavo Bartelt, among other players from different clubs. Former player José Romero was designated as coach. On 6 May 2008, All Boys won a new championship after the match vs. Atlanta, which "El Albo" won 2–0. This score also returned All Boys to Primera B Nacional.

At the end of the 2009–10 Primera B Nacional season, All Boys finished 4th qualifying to play the promotion playoff in order to gain a place in Primera División. After a 1–1 tie in Floresta, All Boys surprised everyone when thrashing Rosario Central by 3–0 in the second leg played at Gigante de Arroyito. Therefore, the club returned to the top division of Argentine football after 30 years of playing in lower divisions. In 2010 Apertura, All Boys achieved victories over Independiente, Estudiantes de La Plata, River Plate, amongst others, finishing in the 8th position.

All Boys had their best first division campaign in the 2012 Clausura, when it finished third in the league table, 5 points behind champion Arsenal de Sarandí. The club had the best defensive record as well, only conceding 13 goals. Notable victories included beating Independiente 3–0 at Estadio Libertadores de América and Boca Juniors 3–1 at home with a hat-trick from Emmanuel Perea.

In May 2014 the club was relegated to the Primera B Nacional. In 2018, it was relegated to Primera B Metropolitana, the third division. It gained promotion back into the B Nacional a year later.

Classic rivals

All Boys' most well-known rivalry is that with Nueva Chicago, called the "Superclasico del Ascenso". This rivalry is considered by many to be one of the most attractive outside of the First Division rivalries. It was born when these two teams played their first match in 1919, which ended in a victory for Nueva Chicago. All Boys won the first match against their rival in 1924, with a 2–1 victory. The next game had to wait until 1941, because the Torito (Nueva Chicago's nickname) had fallen to Primera C in 1937 and returned only after 3 years. "Albo" won that match 3–1 in Nueva Chicago's home, Mataderos. From that time forward All Boys maintains the advantage in wins over Nueva Chicago, an advantage they have never lost. This rivalry has seen more than 90 official matches.

All Boys' original rival is Argentinos Juniors, due to the proximity of their respective neighborhoods but since most of the time they have played in different categories, the rivalry isn't as intense as with Nueva Chicago. These two institutions clashed officially on more than 60 occasions.

All Boys also has a fierce rivalry with Atlanta. Both neighborhoods are relatively close to each other and it was a pretty common fixture as both clubs would find themselves in the same league for many years. The first official match played between them was in 1914, with All Boys winning 2–1. It is commonly said that the rivalry was also born because of Atlanta's neighborhood, Villa Crespo, having a substantial Jewish population and many Atlanta fans belong to this collectivity, even to this day, while Floresta in turn, had more people of Arab ethnicity, and even though the latter doesn't seem to be true nowadays, All Boys fans do display flags with the crescent moon and star.

A relatively new rivalry is that with Vélez Sarsfield. While both clubs are relatively close, they have rarely faced each other as Vélez has played mostly in Primera División while All Boys played in lower tiers for most seasons, making it a distant and minor rivalry for many years. It wasn't until recent years when violence between fans of both clubs started to occur which coincided with All Boys winning promotion to the Primera División, that the rivalry was finally ignited and in this few years, matches between them have had many violent acts occur in the stands.

Crests

The first crest was used from 1913–1919 and had "AB" overlapping each other inside a circle. The second crest was used numerous times: first it was used from 1922–1930, then from 1937–47, 1958–60, and the last time was in 1973. In this crest, the letters were made larger to fit a circular margin, and were placed side-by-side instead of overlapping.

The club's third crest had four letters in it, "C.A.A.B", referencing to its new spanish prefix, "Club Atletico" instead of suffix "Athletic Club". It was used from 1944–1960, and again from 1982–1989, and for a last time from 1994–2002.

In 1967, the club began to use the crest it has today. The club used this crest for that year and didn't reuse it until 1989. It was used for the second time from 1989–1994, and then from 2002 until today.

Stadium

Main article: Estadio Islas Malvinas

The construction of the first stadium of the club began when Leopoldo Rigoli gave the property located between Gaona, Segurola, Morón, and Sanabria streets to All Boys. The club built a roofed podium and five rooms for the players. In 1924 they settled in at Segurola Avenue and opened its new stadium to play a friendly match against Temperley.

In 1937, when professionalism started, All Boys had their new stadium in the city block formed by the streets, Segurola, Indio (current Elpidio Gonzalez), Sanabria and Miranda, where they played until 1959.

In 1959, the national government donated the land, located on Av. Alvarez Jonte between the streets Chivilcoy and Mercedes, to the club. Construction on the new stadium began that year, and on 28 September 1963 the stadium was officially inaugurated, in an match against Deportivo Riestra, which All Boys won convincingly.

Originally the stadium had only two stands on the side, but now there are stands on all sides. The stadium has a capacity of 12,199.

Current squad

Current squad of All Boys as of 6 June 2022 (edit)
Sources: Official website

No. Position Player ARG GK Javier Bustillos ARG GK Andrés Desábato ARG GK Alessandro López ARG DF Facundo Butti ARG DF Lucas Ferrari ARG DF Lucas Kreiman ARG DF Cristian Marcial ARG DF Leandro Martínez ARG DF Lucas Míguez ARG DF Tomás Oneto ARG DF Marcos Sánchez ARG DF Ignacio Vázquez ARG MF Nicolás Barrientos ARG MF Fernando Barrientos

No. Position Player ARG MF Fernando Brandán ARG MF Lucas Cuevas ARG MF Facundo González ARG MF Lautaro Guzmán ARG MF Matías Muñoz ARG MF Lucas Patanelli URU MF Hugo Soria ARG FW Octavio Bianchi ARG FW Martín Comachi ARG FW Miqueas González ARG FW Marco Iacobellis ARG FW Agustín Morales ARG FW Matías Persia ARG FW Hernán Rapp

Manager: Annibal Biggeri

Former players

Main category: All Boys footballers

• Marius Hiller
• Martín Romagnoli (1994–98)
• Sergio Batista (1997–99)
• Nicolás Cambiasso (2007–14)
• Ariel Zárate (2007–11)
• Ariel Ortega (2011)
• Jorge Bianco (1976)
• Gabriel Cella Ruggeri (1999-2000)
• Santiago Montoya Muñoz (2012–13)
• Oscar Ahumada (2012–14)
• Carlos Tevez (Youth career, 1992–96)
• Néstor Fabbri (1984–85), (2004–05)
• Jonathan Calleri (2012–14)

Former managers

Main category: All Boys managers

• José Manuel Moreno
• Adolfo Pedernera
• José Ramos Delgado
• Silvio Marzolini (1975–76)
• Ricardo Pavoni (1982)
• José Santos Romero (interim) (1986)
• Juan Carlos Cárdenas (1986)
• José Santos Romero (interim) (1988–89)
• Francisco Sá (1991)
• Mario Rizzi (July 1, 1992 – June 30, 1993)
• Ricardo Rodríguez (July 1, 1997 – June 30, 1998)
• Sergio Batista (Jan 1, 1999–June 30, 1999)
• Alberto Pascutti (Jan 1, 2001–June 30, 2001)
• Ricardo Caruso Lombardi (July 1, 2002 – June 30, 2003)
• Ricardo Zielinski (2004)
• José Santos Romero (Jan 1, 2005–June 30, 2005)
• Néstor Ferraresi (July 1, 2006 – April 1, 2007)
• José Santos Romero (April 2, 2007 – June 23, 2013)
• Julio César Falcioni (June 24, 2013–Nov 16, 2013)
• Ricardo Rodríguez (Nov 19, 2013–June 14, 2014)
• Ángel Bernuncio (2014)
• Gabriel Perrone (2015)
• José Santos Romero (May 26, 2015–Present)

Statistics in Primera División

Season	Final Pos.	Teams	Format
1923 AAF	10	23	League
1924 AAF	4	22	League
1925 AAF	16	23	League
1926 AAF	–	18	League
1932	5	17	League
1933	7	20	League
1934	16	23	League
1973 Met	16	17	League
1973 Nac	14	15	Group
1974 Met	5	9	Group
1974 Nac	8	9	Group
1975 Met	18	20	League
1975 Nac	5	8	Group
1976 Met	11	11	Group
1976 Nac	9	9	Group
1977 Met	19	23	League
1977 Nac	8	8	Group
1978 Met	17	21	League
1978 Nac	7	8	Group
1979 Met	8	10	Group
1979 Nac	5	7	Group
1980 Met	18	19	League
2010 Ap	8	20	League
2011 Cl	12	20	League
2011 Ap	16	20	League
2012 Cl	5	20	League
2012 I	12	20	League
2013 F	16	20	League
2013 I	16	22	League
2014 F	20	15	League

Honours

• Primera B (1): 1972
• Primera C (4): 1946, 1950, 1992–93, 2007–08

External links

• Official website
• All Boys Locura